Headline News:
- “China Is Totally Crushing Trump’s Fossil Fuel Dream, With Agrivoltaics” • US President Donald Trump and his fossil energy donors have been caught napping. The Chinese solar firm GCL is taking its up-sized agrivoltaic system on the road, with Germany tapped to demonstrate the benefits of combining farming with solar panels on the same land. [CleanTechnica]
Agrivoltaic PV system (Klas Neidhardt, Vattenfall)
- “How Do EU Citizens Feel About Corporate Accountability For Climate Action?” • Around three-quarters of adults in ten EU countries believe large companies with 250 or more employees should be held accountable for human rights and environmental harms in their supply chains, an Ipsos poll shows. In Sweden and Spain this view is particularly strong. [Euronews]
- “Nearly 900 Million Poor People Face Climate Risk, Says UN” • Researchers overlaid global climate hazard data with poverty indicators. They showed poverty is not just an economic issue. It is strongly linked with planetary pressures and instability. They say 887 million poor people are vulnerable to at least one climate risk, and 651 million face two or more. [Euronews]
- “Mystery Heatwave Warms Pacific Ocean To New Record” • The waters of the north Pacific had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists. Between July and September the sea surface was more than 0.25°C (0.45°F) above the previous high of 2022. [BBC]
- “Utilities Grapple With A Multibillion Question: How Much AI Data Center Power Demand Is Real” • Electricity companies across the US are struggling to figure out how much demand will actually materialize from the artificial intelligence boom, as the stock market speculates that vast sums of money will be spent to support a big data center buildout. [CNBC]
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